the.com/pap
A photo of you buying milk, sold for more than the milk.
means Soft, bland food—or by extension, shallow, undemanding content fed to people who don't want to chew.
from From an old, almost universal baby-babble sound—'pap' or 'pa'—echoed across languages (Latin 'pappa' for baby food, Dutch 'pap' for porridge) because infants naturally make that sound when wanting to eat. 'Paparazzi,' oddly, is unrelated in origin—it comes from a character's surname in a 1960 Fellini film—but 'pap' as tabloid-speak for intrusive celebrity photos likely grew by sound-association with that word, plus the sense of 'cheap, easily consumed filler' already baked into 'pap.'
- origin
- short for paparazzo, named after a nosy photographer character
- economics
- candid shots pay more than posed ones
- irony
- celebrities both flee and feed it
- also means
- soft bland food, fittingly unsatisfying